Also known as Protoma rotifera community sample 16
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maraldi Sandstone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the Maraldi Sandsone is approximately 220 m.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; silty marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37367: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832 turret shell | |
Tornus sp. Turton and Kingston 1830 snail | |
Fasciolaria cornuta tulip snail | |
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca, Mytilus rissoi
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca Gmelin 1791 mussel
Mytilus rissoi mussel | |
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop | |
Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Neopycnodonte navicularis Brocchi 1814 oyster | |
Solecurtus scopulus clam | |
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella, Pelecyora islandicoides
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam Subspecies: Venus multilamella glabroides
Pelecyora islandicoides Lamarck 1818 venus clam | |
Thracia cornuta clam |